TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers

Post by gumballindie » Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 11:47 PM UTC

thrashh wrote: post #167

grumblingdev wrote: post #116

TypeScript is an incredible language in general. The fact that Functions are Objects that can have properties/methods is supremely undervalued. Are there other languages that do this so nicely? It's the perfect blend of OO and functional. Programming is mostly about gradually figuring out the right design I find. JS/TS let's me evolve things naturally without big rewrites. function foo() {} function bar() {} function…

TypeScript is really nice but you're really describing a JavaScript feature to be honest. Here's some other languages that support objects as functions (although not necessarily functions as objects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_object

Post by cobertos » Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 6:22 AM UTC

andrewcobby wrote: post #240

cobertos wrote: post #232

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Curious. What made you switch to Bun?

I know this is probably blasphemy at this point, but I actually wasn't enjoying package management in Deno (or lack thereof). I've been an avid user of the NPM ecosystem for a long time (10+ years), it's entrenched deep in me and I don't mind it haha! In particular with Deno, it was trying to remember all the dependency URLs, and not wanting to duplicate them - every time I wanted to read a file and I had to lookup t…

Post by paddim8 » Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 6:26 AM UTC

zkldi wrote: post #38

paddim8 wrote: post #6

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I would think C# is easier for this due to having proper (and very convenient) pattern matching.

C# doesn't have anything resembling proper pattern matching. C#s pattern matching is akin to a marginally improved switch or if/else-if chain. C#s pattern matches aren't exhaustive, and the compiler doesn't properly check them at all.[0] There are no proper sum types in C#, so 80% of the point isn't even there. enum Season { Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter } ... int PatternMatch(Season season) => season switch { Seaso…